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I fix the problem, Dont know where it was Jus update my joomla from 1.5.7 to 1.5.9 and now its fine

And what do you do when this fails to work too? Are you just screwed? Is Joomla not an option for you?

Just an update on this. My office building's WiFi is definitely filtering out cookies. Apparently they are worried about liability and their router has this ability. I guess I won't be doing any Joomla work out on the balcony.

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I was getting very frustrated reading through every line of this thread and trying every solution without succes but one thing helped for me; copying the original installation files back over the Joomla install. I left out the template and images folders because I made a lot of changes there but it still worked. Oh and another tip, don;t oevrwrite the files in the root, such as the index.php, htacces and such, and leave out the Installation folder aswell or you will not be able to login.

Someone said to just overwrite the plugins folder, that might be a good start for those whose database is perfectly fine like mine. If no succes you can update the rest of the files aswell (make a full backup first!)

I wish you all the luck and hope you found this thread fast enough before you fried your brain on the problem.

Just FYI for some of you - I was not able to get Joomla to work on my server. I posted all the server info in another thread in this forum and nobody was able to help. This was a brand new installation and I tried installing a few different ways. I finally got the script installed using Fantastico in cPanel, but then I got stuck with the Admin loop problem and never was able to get past it.

So if you're getting the dreaded sessions error on installation and try all the suggestions here and still can't get it to work - or you're able to get it installed like I did and then get the admin loop problem, then you're just out of luck. I wasted weeks trying to get this script working to no avail. I've since had to change my plans and go with another script. Joomla simply doesn't work for everyone.

SOLUTION - SSL PROBLEMS

I had found the problem with mine, after reading several pages and trying all the suggestions to remove this bug, none of them worked. I found that the problem was within Forcing SSL. I had recently bought SSL encryption, and wanted to enable the SSL only on the administration pages. This option can seen through

Global Configuration -> Server -> Force SSL = Administration Only

After logging out of the administration page several minutes later (Which it was still working) Today, when I tried to log into the administration back end the page just kept refreshing. I even tried removing the https:// to http:// and it automatically put it back.

{SOLUTION}
Go into your site either through your web hosting control panel or FTP access, find your configuration.php file which should be found the main root of the site. Edit the file, you should find; "var $force_ssl = '1';" switch this to 0 to disable it. Upload the file back to the site and check the administration page if it logs through http://

This solution worked for me, if anyone enabled SSL and this bug came up, try this.

Also, if possible; could anyone tell me how I can incorporate my SSL only on my administration pages? I have bought SSL and it seems that it does not run with Joomla... Thanks!

Thanks for your post........this solution worked for me..........

Hi, I had the same problem.

I use SSL on my admin pages simply by typing in, or bookmarking https://mysite.com/administrator/index.php I see the lock in the browser and see my certificate. I login securely.. but it changes back to http:// for some reason. If I remember I change it again to https:// and this time it sticks. Its a bit of a pain you can't force it, but it seems to work this way.

Hope it helps..

Yes, Yes, yes! worked for me - thank you for saving me a night of work

I've tried all the solutions proposed on this long tread but nothing worked.
Eventually I solved my problem changing the "var $session_handler = " in the configuration.php.
I set it to 'database' while it was set on something else, I can't remember on what, but now I can login again, after a whole day wasted trying to find a solution to this bug.

Hi,

I too have this admin loop!

This is what I know...

I have another (unrelated) issue with caching and extra index.php's being generated, which is basically solved by setting the live_site parameter in configuration.php.

However, this breaks my login for SSL only. If I disable SSL (for administrator only) then all is well and I can login to the backend admin. If I enable it again, it goes into this login loop.

As pointed out earlier - you are actually logged in - you just can't see it!

Any ideas?.........

Hey,

My problem is fixed!!

viewtopic.php?f=432&t=381022&p=1739580#p1739580

..described and fixed my SSL issue - so I guess I'm a happy bunny with no admin loop and SSL working just fine.

Huge thanks to jptkts for saving my a**!!

So does anyone have a suggestion for someone who installed this script but cannot log in to the Admin area? I've reset my super admin password as has been suggested. I've confirmed that the session path is correct and that sessions are being written. I've got SSL disabled. I have the var $session_handler set to database. I've checked everything suggested in this thread. But still, I try to login to the admin panel and the login screen just refreshes.

What should I try?

Thank you so much!!!

I got this problem with joomla 1.5.12. I have around 5 other joomla sites on the same shared server and it didn't affect any of them. The admin just randomly began to loop one day.

The above fixed it!

I wish that worked for me. Unfortunately, mine was already set to published.

This worked for me. Thank you very much. I also tried the "User - Joomla!" option, but mine was already set to be published.

Thanks guys!

I have same problem (I installed 1.5.10 same , delete that and install 1.5.14 same again)
I realized in my site modwhoseonline counter counts every refresh as a new guest,
is it affiliated with the loop problem ?
who knows

I have read this topic with great interest, since I have experienced the same problem for some hours. I tried almost every solution which was suggested here, to no avail. I really don't know what to do next.
The strange thing is that, in order to get rid of the problems, I used a backup (JoomlaPack), since I regularly back up my Joomla site. But this did not help me. I still cannot log in my site.
This does not make sense to me. I thought JoomaPack rebuilds the whole database, including files such as configuration.php, etc.
I have two Joomla websites running on the same server. One is in English (www.mysite.com/en), the other in Dutch (www.mysite.com/nl). Both sites are using a different database; with different users etc.
The Dutch site does not have any problems; the English one does… :-(
I am now considering to have my hosting service reset my site. Does anyone have an idea if this might work???

Where can I find that php.ini file?

I had the same issue. mine cleared by turning on the plugin user_joomla in the mysql database. Thanks for the help

I have solved this on my own site
Edit your configuration.php file and make sure <?php is the very first line... nothing before it, not even spaces. In other words when you open it in wordpad <?php should be top left on screen.

Tom

I have the login issue both with the front end using CB and the back end.

With the front end either nothing happens after several mins, or the server times out.

With the back end Administrator login I get the following error message:

Username and password do not match
Error Loading ModulesMySQL server has gone away SQL=SELECT id, title, module, position, content, showtitle, control, params FROM jos_modules AS m LEFT JOIN jos_modules_menu AS mm ON mm.moduleid = m.id WHERE m.published = 1 AND m.access <= 0 AND m.client_id = 1 ORDER BY position, ordering

I have been trying to solve this for over two weeks now and I am going crazy.

Everything seems to still be there. You can create new users, reset passwords, etc., you just can't login in.

I have read all 171 posts in this thread and have already tried many of the suggestions.

No one seemed to mention this error message.

Please help.

I encountered a situation where the user_joomla plugin was broken.

Please verify the existence of the files:
plugins/user/joomla.php
plugins/user/joomla.xml

And the existence of the database record:
SELECT * FROM #__plugins WHERE folder = 'user' AND element = 'joomla'
[replace #_ with the proper prefix]
And that its `published` field is set to 1

ok i find out the correct answer to the problem

download this tool
http://robotics.snu.ac.kr/pds/CrimsonEd ... dt370r.exe

open configuration.php
convert it to encode utf8 w/o bom
save it
and upload it

hope to help u all

You saved my life, man!
Tried everything to no avail... It was the configuration.php file wrongly encoded. The problem started when i changed hosting.

Thanks!
Fabrizio

Well I have this problem too.

I have cloned an existing site, trying to restore it on my server as ive done with countless other sites, but to no avail.

First the site wouldnt display (direct access not allowed) so I deleted the template file and the site shows, albeit in a mess.

The backend simply wont log in, just refreshes and nothing I do seems to help.

Allround very frustrating...

I have this problem as well. I've done EVERYTHING that has been listed as possible fixes. My install was a new latest version install, no extensions or plugins installed or disabled, my admin account is fine, I reset the password, all the db accounts and objects are set properly, PHPINFO() all looks up to snuff. The funny thing is, I set up 2 sites on 2 different domains, SAME SERVER, basically same settings, the other is working fine, this one decided to give me the admin loop problem out of the blue.

Echoing the same frustration as everyone else...

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Hi Guys,

I left this message on a related thread:

Hi Guys,

This may solve your Admin login issue:

http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1944/306/1/4/

Manually add the following QUERY to your DB:

INSERT INTO `jos_users` VALUES (62, 'Administrator', 'admin', 'your-email@email.com', '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3', 'Super Administrator', 0, 1, 25, '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '2005-09-28 00:00:00', '', '');
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_aro` VALUES (10,'users','62',0,'Administrator',0);
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map` VALUES (25,'',10);

Follow the article above for instruction. It seems the admin profile is not getting set up during auto installation?

Aidan

No, I think most of the people complaining here already have successfully set up and used their sites (including me). I've checked and triple-checked all the db settings with PHPMyAdmin, that script obviously won't work since there's already an admin account there.

Thanks for that, any other suggestions welcome.

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